Setting up Printer Wirelessly for iMac n PC

Hi, this may be sort of a noob question but I was hoping someone could help me out. I have an HP photosmart 8050 printer hooked up to my iMac via USB. The thing is my girlfriend uses my other 2 dell laptops mainly for school while I use my iMac for school. All of these computers are on the same network and are scattered around my house. So being in school we need to print out a lot of documentation and wanted to just have the printer setup wirelessly. I have a modem w/ the wired/wireless router, and all my computers have internal wireless cards. ANy help would be appreciated greatly!!!! Thanks!

Hi, this may be sort of a noob question but I was hoping someone could help me out. I have an HP photosmart 8050 printer hooked up to my iMac via USB. The thing is my girlfriend uses my other 2 dell laptops mainly for school while I use my iMac for school. All of these computers are on the same network and are scattered around my house. So being in school we need to print out a lot of documentation and wanted to just have the printer setup wirelessly. I have a modem w/ the wired/wireless router, and all my computers have internal wireless cards. ANy help would be appreciated greatly!!!! Thanks!

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As long as your iMac stays on, you can enable Printer Sharing using System Preferences>Sharing.

I'm pretty sure that Windows machines can access the printer this way. If not, you may have to install Bonjour on the Windows PCs.

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